A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by malicious users to bypass security restrictions. This issue is caused by an error in the "sysstat.in" script within sysstat that creates the temporary file "/tmp/sysstat.run" in an insecure manner, which could allow malicious users to conduct symlink attacks and create or overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of the user invoking the vulnerable application.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Julien L.
ChangeLog
2007-08-21 : Initial release
2007-08-27 : Updated Solution
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